travail
French
noun
Definitions
- work; labor
- job
- workplace
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French travail inherited from Old French travail (suffering, torment) derived from Latin *tripaliō, trepālium, tripālis (that which has three stakes, having three stakes, held up by three stakes, held up by three stakes pales) derived from Old French travauz.
Origin
Old French
travauz
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- betravail English
- travail English
- travailest English
- travaileth English
- travailous English
- *trapaliare, *tripaliāre Latin
- *tripalium Latin
- *tripaliāre Latin
- *tripaliō Latin
- *tripālium Latin
- trabaculare Latin
- trepalium Latin
- trepālium Latin
- tripalium Latin
- tripālis Latin
- travailliste French
- télétravail French
- télétravailleur French
- sobretrabajo Spanish, Castilian
- teletrabajo Spanish, Castilian
- trabajo Spanish, Castilian
- antitrabalho Portuguese
- trabalho Portuguese
- trabalhoso Portuguese
- travail Middle English
- travl Danish
- travail Old French
- travauz Old French
- treball Catalan, Valencian
- teletraballo Galician
- traballo Galician
- trabaho Cebuano
- travas Norman
- trabaho Tagalog
- travail Middle French
- traballo Old Portuguese
- trabalh Occitan
- *trēs Proto-Italic
- travagghiu Sicilian
- trabou Papiamentu
- travàggio Ligurian
- travajo Ladino
- טראבﬞאזﬞו Ladino
- travay Haitian, Haitian Creole
- trabadja Kabuverdianu
- trabaho Bikol Central
- traböjo Tetelcingo Nahuatl
- tadawaaju Maquiritari